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PHOTO: COVER
IL – Intelligence in Lifestyle, Luca Pitoni, Creative Director, Raffaele Vertaldi, Director of Photography, Charles Fréger,
Photographer; September 2009, “Ora Comando Io”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Art Streiber, Photographer; September 21, 2009,
“Neil Patrick Harris”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Paolo Pellegrin, Photographer;
February 8, 2009, “Great Performers”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Robert Maxwell, Photographer;
October 25, 2009, “The Audacity of Precious”

W, Dennis Freedman, Creative Director, Edward Leida, Design Director, Chuck Close, Photographer; February 2009, “Brad Pitt”
W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Steven Klein, Photographer; March 2009, “Blame It On Rio xx Madonna”

PHOTO: ENTIRE ISSUE
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography; October 19, 2009,
“The Body Issue”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; March 23, 2009, “Spring Fashion Issue”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography;
January 18, 2009, “Obama’s People”

W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Steven Klein, Photographer; March 2009, “Blame It On Rio xx Madonna”

W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Nadia Vellam, Photo Editor; November 2009, “The Art Issue”

PHOTO: SECTION (from a single issue)
Bon Appétit, Matthew Lenning, Design Director, Bailey Franklin, Director of Photography, Levi Brown, Photographer; March 2009,
“At the Market: Potatoes”

Men’s Health, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography; December 2009,
“Health, Nutrition Departments”

T, The New York Times Style Magazine, David Sebbah, Creative Director, Natasha Lunn, Photo Editor; October 18, 2009,
“London is Burning T”

Vanity Fair, David Harris, Design Director, Susan White, Director of Photography; December 2009, “Lanvin Extraordinaire”

WIRED, Scott Dadich, Creative Director; April 2009, “Splash Page: Bubbles”

PHOTO: SECTION (multiple issues)
Field & Stream, Neil Jamieson, Art Director, Amy Berkley, Photo Editor; March, August, September 2009, Dec 09/Jan 10,
“Bullet Points”

Interior Design Magazine, Cindy Allen, Creative Director, Helene Oberman, Photo Editor; April, July 2009, “Centerfold”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; “Culture Pages”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; “Strategist Openers”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography; “Cooking with Dexter”

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (single/spread)
Best Life, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Ryan Cadiz, Director of Photography; March 2009, “The New Science of Hair Growth”

Men’s Health, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography, Craig Cutler, Photographer;
October 2009, “Everything You Know About Muscle Is Wrong”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Horacio Salinas, Photographer; February 16, 2009
“Mattresses”

O, the Oprah Magazine, Kerry Robertson, Design Director, Katherine Schad, Director of Photography, Jill Greenberg, Photographer;
June 2009, “If We Could Talk to Animals”

Psychology Today, Edward Levine, Creative Director,

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (story)
Martha Stewart Living, Eric Pike, Creative Director, James Dunlinson, Design Director, Heloise Goodman, Director of Photography,
Hans Gissinger, Photographer; April 2009, “A Fish Techniques Refresher”

Men’s Health, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography, Romulo Yanes, Photographer;
November 2009, “Go Fish”

Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Christopher Griffith, Photographer;
October 2009, “You Can Tackle the Laundry”

WIRED Italy, David Moretti, Art Director, Francesca Morosini, Photo Editor, Ciro Frank Schappa, Photographer; October 2009,
“Mi Chiaro Enrico E Stampo Case”

WIRED Italy, David Moretti, Art Director, Francesca Morosini, Photo Editor, Christopher LaMarca, Photographer; November 2009,
“I Migliori Scatti Della Nostra Vita”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (single/spread)
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Stefan Ruiz, Photographer;
July 13, 2009, “Love the Spotlight—Santonio Holmes”

ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Sean Davey, Photographer;
September 7, 2009, “In His Element”

Fortune, Robert Perino, Design Director, Greg Pond, Director of Photography, Christopher Griffith, Photographer;
November 23, 2009, “The Decade of Steve”

Popular Mechanics, Michael Lawton, Design Director, Allyson Torrisi, Director of Photography, Phillip Toledano, Photographer;
February 2009, “NASA Discontents”

Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Jessica Todd Harper, Photographer;
November 2009, “The Most Meaningful Part of My Day”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (story)
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Christian Pondella/Redbull,
Keith Lazzinski, Photographers; February 23, 2009, “Deep Play”

ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography; October 19, 2009,
“Bodies We Want”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Nadav Kander,
Photographer; January 18, 2009, “Obama’s People”

TIME, Arthur Hochstein, Art Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Dan Winters for TIME, Photographer;
December 28, 2009 – January 4, 2010, “The 2009 Person of the Year: Ben Bernanke”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (single/spread)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography; January 2009, “Lil Wayne”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Mary Ellen Mark, Photographer;
May 4, 2009, “A Nonfiction Marriage”

The New Yorker, Elisabeth Biondi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; March 2, 2009, “The Actress”
Vanity Fair, David Harris, Design Director, Susan White, Director of Photography, Art Streiber, Photographer; August 2009,
“The Grapes of Wrath”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (story)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; December 2009,
“Men of the Year Portfolio”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Paolo Pellegrin,
Photographer; February 8, 2009, “Great Performers”

T, The New York Times Style Magazine, David Sebbah, Creative Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Inez van Lamsweerde
& Vinoodh Matadin, Photographers; May 31, 2009, “Hearts of Palme”

Vanity Fair, David Harris, Design Director, Susan White, Director of Photography, Annie Leibovitz, Photographer; March 2009,
“Something Just Clicked

W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Steven Klein, Photographer; March 2009, “Blame It On Rio”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (single/spread)
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Naomi Harris, Photographer;
October 19, 2009, “No Shirts, No Shorts, Lots of Service”

ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography; October 19, 2009, “Cutting It Close”

GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Joshua Lutz, Photographer; September 2009,
“Tent Cities U.S.A.”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Mark Peterson,
Photographer; February 22, 2009, “Rescue Flight”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Anthony Almeida—Danziger
Projects, Photographer; February 22, 2009, “The First Marriage”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (story)
Marie Claire, Suzanne Sykes, Creative Director, Alex Campbell, Director of Photography; March 2009, “The Big Picture”

National Geographic, David Whitmore, Design Director, David Griffin, Director of Photography, Vincent J. Musi, Photographer;
February 2009, “Where the Dead Don’t Sleep”

National Geographic, David Whitmore, Design Director, David Griffin, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer;
December 2009, “The Hadza”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Peter van Agtmael,
Photographer; October 18, 2009, “His Long War”

TIME, Arthur Hochstein, Art Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Adam Ferguson — VII Mentor Program for TIME,
Photographer; October 12, 2009, “A Window on the War”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (single/spread)
Best Life, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Ryan Cadiz, Director of Photography; April 2009, “The CEO Suicides”

CUT—Leute Machen Kleider, Lucie Schmid, Art Director, Lucie Schmid, Director of Photography, Gabriela Neeb, Photographer;
September 18, 2009,

Men’s Health, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography, Nathaniel Welch, Photographer;
June 2009, “The Beauty of the Beast”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Mitchell Feinberg,
Photographer; October 11, 2009, “Against Meat”

WIRED, Scott Dadich, Creative Director; August, 2009, “Primordial Yeast”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (story)
Condé Nast Portfolio, Robert Priest, Design Director, Karen Frank, Director of Photography, Henry Leutwyler, Photographer;
April 2009, “The Thriller is Gone”

T, The New York Times Style Magazine, David Sebbah, Creative Director, Judith Puckett-Rinella, Sr. Photo Editor, Ilan Rubin,
Photographer; May 31, 2009, “Color Forms”

Texas Monthly, T.J. Tucker, Creative Director, Leslie Baldwin, Photo Editor, Todd Hido, Photographer; October 2009, “Fear Factor”

W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Stephen Shore, Photographer; November 2009, “The Private World of Ingmar Bergman”

Wired, Scott Dadich, Creative Director; May, 2009, “Mystery Spots”
PHOTO: FEATURE, FASHION/BEAUTY (single/spread)
Best Life, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Ryan Cadiz, Director of Photography, Nino Muñoz, Photographer; April 2009,
“Not a Businessman—A Business, Man”

More, Debra Bishop, Creative Director, Plamen Petkov, Photographer; April 2009, “The Biggest Loser”

More, Debra Bishop, Creative Director, Stacey Baker, Director of Photography, Tom Schierlitz, Photographer; October 2009,
“Big Beauty Try-On”

Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Roland Bello, Photographer;
September 2009, “The Hardest-Working Wardrobe”

Washingtonian Bride & Groom, Pum Lefebure, Jake Lefebure, Creative Directors, Cade Martin, Photographer; June 2009,
“Game Day”

PHOTO: FEATURE, FASHION/BEAUTY (story)
More, Debra Bishop, Creative Director, Stacey Baker, Director of Photography, Nigel Cox, Photographer; September 2009,
“Rhapsody in Red”

New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Marcus Bleasdale, Photographer;
March 24-31, 2009, “Exquisite Circus”

The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Malick Sidibé,
Photographer; April 5, 2009, “Prints and the Revolution”

W, Dennis Freedman, Creative Director, Edward Leida, Design Director, Steven Klein, Photographer; July 2009, “Honeymoon Hotel”

W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Craig McDean, Photographer; September 2009, “Paper Bag Princess”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRADE/CORPORATE (single/spread/story)
Earnshaw’s, Nancy Campbell, Creative Director, Michael Brian, Photographer; March 2009, “Fur-Ocious”

Footwear Plus, Nancy Campbell, Creative Director, Andrew Woffinden, Photographer; March 2009, “Suburbia”

Hemispheres, Rob Hewitt, Art Director, Erin Giunta, Photo Editor, Stefan Killen, Photographer; October 2009, “Finders Keepers”

Ud & Se, Torsten Hogh Rasmussen, Design Director, Kristian Soederup, Photographer; April 2009, “With God On Our Side”

Ud & Se, Torsten Hogh Rasmussen, Design Director, Casper Balslev, Photographer; July 2009, “Recess”

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If you haven’t heard the recent uproar about Spanish wildlife photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez being awarded first place (here) in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest run by the British Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine then being stripped of the award (here) after people called into question the authenticity of the wolf in his winning image (here).

I quickly lost all interest in the controversy when I read this (here):

“José Luis started by placing meat in the corral.”

Great wildlife photography for me is equal parts photography and sport. If baiting the animals is acceptable to the judges who cares if it was captive or wild?

I like what photographer Bob Keefer  has to say (here) about the whole kerfuffle:

But the weirdest thing is, the winning photograph is awful. Whether “real” or staged, it’s utterly cheesy, the kind of demented nature porn that has come to dominate the nature photography market around the world. Who cares if it’s a picture of Ossian? It’s boring, overwrought and melodramatic. The judges knew this when they picked it, referring to its “fairy tale” qualities.

The judges should be fired, both for choosing the photograph in the first place and then for their handling of the complaints about it.

Someone online obviously felt the same way. Why stop with one jumping wolf when you can have 3 and a full moon to boot (UPDATE: obviously an homage to the three wolf moon t-shirt phenomenon that went completely over my head – ape):

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Fantastic video from Monocle. Interviews with Edgar Martins, Edward Burtynsky, Christopher Anderson and winner Nadav Kander.

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Kofi Annan awards £60,000 (CHF100,000) Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability to Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander (Israel, 1961)
Nominated for Yangtze, The Long River Series, 2006-07
Kandar has documented the rapidly changing landscape and communities of China’s Yangtze River, from its mouth to source. More people live on the river’s 6500km of banks than in America. However, China’s current programme of development is also destroying the country’s heritage and displacing many of its people. Kander is a regular contributor to many international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, for whom he recently documented ‘Obama’s People’. His many international awards and nominations include most recently the Silver Photographer of the Year Award at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival 08 in China.

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Photo Magazine of the Year – www.burnmagazine.org

Fashion Layout of the Year – Harper’s Bazaar – Thriller Fashion by Terry Richardson

Book Publisher of the Year – Verso Limited Editions Bruce Davidson – Central Park

Print Advertising Campaign of the Year – FFL France Wrangler We Are Animals Ryan McGinley

Photography Curator of the Year – Sarah Greenough Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans

International Photographer of the Year – Nadav Kander

Discovery of the Year Award – Elliot Wilcox

International Photographer of the Year, Deeper Perspective Award – Rachel Papo

The Spotlight Award – The W.Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, accepted by Marcel Saba, the fund’s current President.

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Jörg Colberg: In your “Home Theater” statement, you’re describing your work as “allowing a ’staged’ photograph to break down and [...] then [to] spiral into the spontaneous.” I just have to ask – especially given your Yale background: What’s wrong with staged photography? Why have it break down?

Bradley Peters: It’s not an issue of something being “wrong” but rather my interest in something that no one seems to speak of much these days… luck. I’m not interested in coming up with a really well defined idea and then making a picture that illustrates that concept. My photographic foundation was built in small camera, black & white street photography, I mean that’s basically the only way I shot for nearly ten years, and I’m still really interested in letting the world reveal itself in ways that I can’t imagine by myself. Without the breakdown there is very little surprise, which is important to me. I need to feel as though I learned something from the image and if the picture turns out exactly the way I wanted, I probably didn’t learn anything that I didn’t already know. In a way, I probably didn’t even need to make the picture in the first place. There was a really good interview in LA Weekly a couple years ago with John Szarkowski that I think speaks to this point:

“Some photographers think the idea is enough. I told a good story in my Getty talk, a beautiful story, to the point: Ducasse says to his friend Mallarmé — I think this is a true story — he says, ‘You know, I’ve got a lot of good ideas for poems, but the poems are never very good.” Mallarmé says, “Of course, you don’t make poems out of ideas, you make poems out of words.’ Really good, huh? Really true. So, photographers who aren’t so good think that you make photographs out of ideas. And they generally get only about halfway to the photograph and think that they’re done.”

Read more on Conscientious.

I’m a huge fan of luck and unexpected results in photography, but I think many younger photographers don’t like pictures that they didn’t intend to happen, because it feels like you have no control over the outcome. I’ve also heard the argument that because amateurs get lucky once in awhile it somehow invalidates pictures that you didn’t expect. I can tell you that photographers who take these kinds of pictures have portfolios filled with lucky shots and that’s no accident. I can also tell you that shooting this way can be extremely nerve-racking and of course from the client side of the equation you have to sell everyone on a picture that wasn’t planned for. It’s just as difficult to use luck as it is to nail everything down from beginning to end.

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“I was a writer but had a personal crisis and words failed me for the first time in my life so I picked up a camera to communicate…”

“… the stories we hold up define who we are as a society.”

The book from last year’s project is out now (here):

In addition to that they are now accepting applications for their fourth year of granting (2010); and will be giving out two grants, for $20,000 each. The application deadline is Nov 2nd (here).

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This is going to be a cool experiment to see what kind of cover the amazon buying public likes. There are quite a few covers missing the coverlines which I presume are the subscriber copies and just looking at those makes you realize how coverlines ruin a good cover. Then there are the illustrated covers which I’d be willing to bet will lose out to the photographs in any category where there’s a strong picture. The best part is that they have all the photographers properly credited so you can click on a cover and see who shot it. That brings up an interesting cover competition in the food category:

Nigel Cox vs. Kenji Toma vs. Roland Bello

Also in the Obama Cover section it’s Peter Yang vs. Nadav vs. Chessum vs. Joe Raedle/Getty

I thought this Stephen Wilkes cover in the Science, Technology and Nature Category was cool:

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The winner of the competition will have her or his work featured here on this blog, in the form of an extended conversation/interview (which, of course, also showcases the photography). Details below.

First of all, the Conscientious Portfolio Competition (CPC) is free. It’s no pay-to-play scheme. There are no costs involved for you, other than whatever time it takes to send me your stuff.

Second, CPC is aimed at emerging photographers. Of course, the term “emerging” is not extremely well defined; what it means that photographers not represented by a gallery will get preferential treatment over those that already are (but of course, the quality of the work also plays an important role).

Read about it (Here)
It will be interesting to see what he turns up. Whenever I’ve done something similar in the past I’ve discovered excellent photographers I knew nothing about.

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I remember a few months back some very provocative quotes coming from a speech Stephen Mayes gave but I’m not sure if the full audio ever made it out. Len’s Culture has it (here) along with those wonderful quotes:

“I wonder if World Press Photo is peeling away from reflecting the media as it is, and is rather reflecting the media the way we wish it were. Of the 376 images awarded prizes this year, I would be curious to know how many have been published in a paid-for context. Maybe all of them. Maybe. But the overall impression that I’m left with from the 470,214 images that I have seen entered into the contest in the current decade, is that they reflect a form of photojournalism that is now more romantic than functional.”

“The overwhelming impression from the vast volume of images is that photojournalism (as a format for interpreting the world) is trying to be relevant by copying itself rather than by observing the world.”

“As one juror said this year, ‘90% of the pictures are about 10% of the world.’”

Stephen is the Managing Director of VII Photo Agency and served as Jury Secretary for the World Press Photo Awards from 2004-2009.

UPDATE: It was originally published with the audio on Notes from Nowhere (here).

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The Judges:
Maggie Steber – Photographer
James Nachtwey – Photographer VII
Carol Naggar & Fred Ritchen – Historians-Authors-Analysts
Eugene Richards – Photographer
John Gossage – Curator
Scott Thode – Deputy Picture Editor Fortune Magazine
Gilles Peress – Photographer Magnum
David Griffin – Director of Photography National Geographic Magazine
Martin Parr – Photographer Magnum

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The Marty Forscher Fellowship went to Matthieu Paley and the student award went to Michael Mullady. Nikon Storyteller Award went to Ambroise Tézenas. The Arnold Newman prize went to Jeff Riedel and the Student Award went to Carl Kiilsgaard of Western Kentucky University. Cheers.

There’s some great photography in the winners gallery. I always liked looking through the advertising section so I could match a photographer with a campaign. On the editorial side I saw very few images/photographers that I wasn’t already familiar with, but I think that’s fine. It’s still good to celebrate the great work that was done last year. Corporate is another category I like seeing and discovering photographers, because I don’t follow that side of the business.

In the personal section there’s an incredible surfing image by Ed Freeman that I was bummed to discover is a composite. Ed labels the photography as Fine Art on his website (here) and explains that they’re retouched but I wouldn’t have been able to publish them editorially (back when I used to look in the personal section for images to publish).

Also in the stock category there’s an image that produced a little bit of controversy.

Over on You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice they’re calling it a rip off (here).

The similarities between what’s being dropped, subjects and framing make it too close to ignore but a commenter on YTWWN shows (as we all know) that nothing is new, everything has been done before (here).

Then finally there’s student work. It’s always nice to see students who can already take great pictures.

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Eliane, by the way, gave a moving acceptance speech on the power of photography and photojournalism in particular where she recounted a poignant moment in her career and really it probably relates to a turning point in the business of photography when Corbis bought Sygma and the new contracts came back and they had changed “photography” to “content” and “photographers” to “content providers.” She concluded by saying although things are looking bad now there is so much great work being made in the world and as long as photojournalists believe, photojournalism will exist.

I wanted to say how cool and original it is that they built an award around the idea that they “honor the work of those who are not photographers but who have been instrumental in building greater awareness of the photographic arts in the general public.” The museum itself is very cozy and from what I understand they have excellent programming. If this award is any indication of the type of out of the box thinking they’re going to continue with in the future then they will become, if they haven’t already a strong voice in the photography world. Actually, the fact that Jean-François would fly in from Europe and Kathy would come up from New York for this one night is a pretty good indicator that they are already a strong voice.

From what I understand Lou Jones our MC for the evening came up with the idea for the award and I’m told by other photographers in the community he really works hard to educate himself and those around him about the future of photography. I was also told there was intense debate around my nomination (and others as well) but nearly everyone I met said they don’t read blogs so I’m guessing there’s handful of young photographers who work with the museum who nominated me and I want to say thanks.

I’m not so much an advocate for blogging as I am for simply doing things online where I strongly believe a great portion of the business of photography will end up. I think blogs are a great way to strengthen the community, to debate new ideas, to stomp out old bad ideas and to find a new path for photography but it’s more important that people working with photography are putting work online and trying new things out to help us all figure out what’s next. I did manage to say in my speech that I believe in the future of photography and that I would like to convince those that have the power to make decisions over the use of photography that there is no greater medium for communication online and once they finally realize this there will be a big bright future awaiting all of us.

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Winner: GQ: Jim Nelson, editor-in-chief; Fred Woodward, design director; Jim Moore, creative director; Anton Ioukhnovets, art director; Dora Somosi, director of photography, for August, November, December issues.

PHOTOJOURNALISM
This category recognizes the informative photographic documentation of an event or subject in real-time. Photo essays accompanied by text are judged primarily on the strength of the photographs.

Winner: National Geographic: Chris Johns, editor-in-chief; David Griffin, director of photography; Kurt F. Mutchler and Susan A. Smith, deputy directors, photography, for Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?, by Mark Jenkins, photographs by Brent Stirton, July.

PHOTO PORTFOLIO
This category honors creative photography and photo illustration.

Winner: The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor; Elisabeth Biondi, visuals editor, for Service, portfolio by Platon, September 29.

Also the awesome upsets were: Backpacker beats The New Yorker and Harper’s in the Essay category, Field and Stream beats Vogue, The New Yorker, Bon Appetite and Pop Sci in the 1-2 mill General Excellence category and Reader’s Digest wins the over 2 million circ General Excellence award (I think the Photography Director should get a leg or two off the ellie for this win).

Looks like they’ve managed to avoid the embarrassing handing out of an award to a magazine that doesn’t exist anymore.

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13. BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald for his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: the Associated Press Staff for its haunting chronicle of death, destruction, heartbreak and renewal when an earthquake devastated Sichuan, China, and Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times for her valorous on-the-spot coverage of political violence in Kenya, capturing the terror as rebellion and reprisals jolted the nation.

14. FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
For a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to Damon Winter of The New York Times for his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Carol Guzy of The Washington Post for her powerfully intimate coverage of the perils and sorrow of childbirth in Sierra Leone, where women face the world’s highest rate of maternal mortality, and Sonya Hebert of The Dallas Morning News for her empathetic portrait of palliative care in a Texas medical center as terminally ill patients cope with the end of their lives.

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http://www.lyndonwade.com

Wonnacott Photography
http://www.Wonnacott.com

Here are the photographers who received a nomination:

Art

20×200
http://www.20×200.com

Best Use Of Photography

Lyndon Wade Photography
http://www.lyndonwade.com

Professional Services

cake-factory
http://www.cake-factory.com

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When a list of finalists or award winners comes out from a group that I respect the first thing I do is go down the list and find all the photographers who’s names I don’t recognize and steal discover them. I made them all bold, so it’s easier for you. There are plenty to cherry pick between all the usual suspects. Enjoy.

PHOTO: COVER
Bon Appétit, Matthew Lenning, Design Director, Liz Mathews, Photo Editor, Kenji Toma, Photographer; August 2008, “Ice Cream Cone”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Ruven Afanador, Photographer; June 1, 2008, “Tyra Banks”
Rolling Stone, Joseph Hutchinson, Art Director, Jodi Peckman, Director of Photography, Peter Yang, Photographer; July 10, 2008, “Barack Obama”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Photographer; March 9, 2008, “Men’s Fashion Spring”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Raymond Meier, Photographer; November 16, 2008, “Travel Winter”

PHOTO: ENTIRE ISSUE
Bon Appétit, Matthew Lenning, Design Director, Bailey Franklin, Photo Editor; October 2008, “Fall Feasts”
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography; December 2008, “Men of the Year”
LOOK New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; Fall 2008, “Spring 2009 Fashion”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; October 6, 2008, “40th Anniversary Issue”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography; February 10, 2008, “Breakthrough Performances in Film”

PHOTO: SECTION (single/spread)
Bon Appétit, Matthew Lenning, Design Director, Liz Mathews, Photo Editor, James Wojcik, Photographer; June 2008, “At the Market: Cucumbers”
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Rob Tringali, Photographer; “Foam Over / Jessica Subido”
Fortune, Robert Perino, Design Director, Greg Pond, Director of Photography, Gregg Segal, Photographer; May 12, 2008, “Bag Revolution”
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; May 2008, “Marc Jacobs Doesn’t Give a F**k”
Spin, Devin Pedzwater, Design Director, Michelle Egiziano, Director of Photography, Rebecca Smeyne, Photographer; January 2008, “Soundcheck: PRE”

PHOTO: SECTION (story)
Blender, Dirk Barnett, Creative Director, David Carthas, Director of Photography; June 2008, “Collect Call: Mötley Crüe”
Dwell, Kyle Blue, Design Director, Kate Stone Foss, Director of Photography, Beate Gütschow, Photographer; June 2008, “Second Nature”
Dwell, Kyle Blue, Design Director, Kate Stone Foss, Director of Photography, Edward Burtynsky, Photographer; November 2008, “Edward Burtynsky Quarries”
MADRIZ, Louis-Charles Tiar, Creative Director, Fernando Maselli, Photographer; Fall 2008/Winter 2009, “Los Andamios”
W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Toby McFarland Pond, Photographer; May 2008, “Irresistible”

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (single/spread)
Best Life, Brandon Kavulla, Design Director, Ryan Cadiz, Director of Photography, Dan Forbes, Photographer; August 2008, “Your Brain at 40”
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Horacio Salinas, Photographer; July 2008, “You Can’t Save the Planet”
Men’s Health, George Karabotsos, Design Director, Brenda Millis, Director of Photography, Mike Powell, Photographer; May 2008, “Yes, You Were Born to Run”
Popular Mechanics, Michael Lawton, Design Director, Allyson Torrisi, Director of Photography, Gregor Hatenda, Photographer; December 2008, “So You Want to Buy a Digital SLR”
Psychology Today, Edward Levine, Creative Director, Claudia Stefezius, Director of Photography, Fredrik Broden, Photographer; March/April 2008, “Magical Thinking”

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (story)
Dwell, Kyle Blue, Design Director, Kate Foss Stone, Director of Photography, Gregg Segal, Photographer; November 2008, “iT House: Joshua Tree”
Martha Stewart Living, Eric Pike, Creative Director, James Dunlinson, Design Director, Heloise Goodman, Director of Photography, Hans Gissinger, Photographer; April 2008, “Exemplary Eggs”
Minnesota Monthly, Brian Johnson, Art Director, David Boroman, Photographer; June 2008, “Liquid Assets”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Tom Schierlitz, Photographer; April 28, 2008, “You Walk Wrong”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (single/spread)
ESPN the Magazine, Siung Tjia, Creative Director, Catriona Ni Aolain, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; “Strongman”
MADRIZ, Louis-Charles Tiar, Creative Director, Alberto García-Alix, Photographer; Fall 2007/Winter 2008, “Contra la Realidad”
The New Yorker, Elisabeth Biondi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; August 11-18, 2008, “Ryan Hall”
Sports Illustrated, Steve Hoffman, Creative Director, Gerard Rancinan, Photographer; July 28, 2008, “Faces of China”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Nobuyoshi Araki, Photographer; February 24, 2008, “Kusama”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (story)
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Dan Winters, Photographer; October 6, 2008, “Head-Liners”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Robbie Cooper, Photographer; November 23, 2008, “My Game Face”
Play, The New York Times Sports Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Rob Hewitt, Jeff Glendenning, Art Directors, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Paolo Pellegrin, Photographer; August 2008, “Swifter, Higher and All That”
Rolling Stone, Joseph Hutchinson, Art Director, Jodi Peckman, Director of Photography, Sebastião Salgado, Photographer; October 30, 2008, “Ethiopia’s Nomad Warriors”
Texas Monthly, T.J. Tucker, Art Director, Leslie Baldwin, Photo Editor, Peter Yang, Photographer; July 2008, “True Grit”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (single/spread)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Mark Seliger, Photographer; December 2008, “John Malkovich”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Brigitte Lacombe, Photographer; December 15, 2008, “Kate Winslet”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Robert Maxwell, Photographer; October 5, 2008, “Queen Latifah”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Photographers; November 30, 2008, “Mickey Rourke”
WIRED, Scott Dadich, Creative Director, Zana Woods, Photo Editor, James Day, Photographer; November 2008, “Radiohead”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (story)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Mark Seliger, Photographer; December 2008, “Men of the Year Portfolio”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Ryan McGinley, Photographer; February 10, 2008, “Breakthroughs in Film”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Solve Sundsbo, Photographer; December 7, 2008, “Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise”
Vanity Fair, David Harris, Design Director, Susan White, Director of Photography; March 2008, “Hitchcock Hollywood Portfolio”
W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Brad Pitt, Photographer; November 2008, “Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (single/spread)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Jill Greenberg, Photographer; February 2008, “Violence of the Lambs”
Newsweek, Amid Capeci, Design Director, Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, Alex Majoli — Magnum for Newsweek, Photographer; September 8, 2008, “New Model Army”
Sports Illustrated, Steve Hoffman, Creative Director, Heinz Kluetmeier, Photographer; August 25, 2008, “He Got Him”
TIME, Arthur Hochstein, Art Director, Alice Gabriner, Chief Picture Editor, Callie Shell — Aurora, Photographer; March 17, 2008, “The Long Way Home”
TIME, Arthur Hochstein, Art Director, Alice Gabriner, Chief Picture Editor, Danny Wilcox Frazier — Redux, Photographer; June 30, 2008, “Deep Down In Iowa”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (story)
National Geographic, David Whitmore, Design Director, David Griffin, Director of Photography, Eugene Richards, Photographer; January 2008, “The Emptied Prairie”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Stephanie Sinclair, Photographer; January 20, 2008, “Female Circumcision”
The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Arem Duplessis, Art Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Stephanie Sinclair, Photographer; July 21, 2008, “Children of God”
TIME, Arthur Hochstein, Art Director, Alice Gabriner, Chief Picture Editor, James Nachtwey — VII, Photographer; October 13, 2008, “The Forgotten Plague”
WIRED, Scott Dadich, Creative Director, Zana Woods, Photo Editor, Nick Waplington, Photographer; April 2008, “Eureka!”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (single/spread)
Bon Appétit, Matthew Lenning, Design Director, Liz Mathews, Photo Editor, Mitchell Feinberg, Photographer; June 2008, “Pasta In a New Light”
Garden & Gun, Marshall McKinney, Art Director, Maggie Brett Kennedy, Photo Editor, Peter Frank Edwards, Photographer; September/October 2008, “The Pork Is In the Mail”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, James Wojcik, Photographer; May 5, 2008, “To Die For”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Tom Schierlitz, Photographer; June 23, 2008, “Strategist: Herbal Armor”
Newsweek, Amid Capeci, Design Director, Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, Ambroise Tezenas for Newsweek, Photographer; April 21-28, 2008, “Beyond the Glitz”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (story)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Mitchell Feinberg, Photographer; July 2008, “My Sweet Life”
T, The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Olaf Otto Becker, Photographer; September 21, 2008, “Day of Ascension”
Texas Monthly, T.J. Tucker, Art Director, Leslie Baldwin, Photo Editor, Dan Winters, Photographer; October 2008, “Flying Away”
(t)here, Christopher Wieliczko, Creative Director, Jason Makowski, Design Director, Marcus Brooks, Photographer; Spring 2008, “Eat This”
W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Philip-Lorca DiCorca, Photographer; May 2008, “Cairo”

PHOTO: FEATURE, FASHION/BEAUTY (single/spread)
Atlanta, Hector Sanchez, Creative Director, Alex Martinez, Photographer; June 2008, “Pool Fashion”
People, Sara Williams, Design Director, Chris Dougherty, Director of Photography, Robert Trachtenberg, Photographer; May 12, 2008, “World’s Most Beautiful: Sarah Silverman”
Shufti, Sean Kennedy Santos, Art Director and Photographer; October 2008, “Void #2”
Shufti, Sean Kennedy Santos, Art Director and Photographer; October 2008, “Void #4”

PHOTO: FEATURE, FASHION/BEAUTY (story)
Barcelona, Louis-Charles Tiar, Creative Director, Kenji Toma, Photographer; Fall 2008/Winter 2009, “Océano de Bolsillo”
LOOK New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Christopher Anderson, Photographer; Spring 2008, “Sideshows”
LOOK New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Benjamin Lowy, Photographer; Fall 2008, “Sideshows”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, David Sebbah, Sr. Art Director, Coppi Barbieri, Photographer; August 17, 2008, “Dream States”
W, Edward Leida, Design Director, Mert Alas, Marcus Piggott, Photographers; August 2008, “Kiss the Sky”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRADE/CORPORATE (single/spread/story)
Earnshaw’s, Nancy Campbell, Creative Director, Michael Brian, Photographer; April 2008, “Pinewood Academy”
Golf Digest Index, Ken DeLago, Design Director, Christian Iooss, Kerry Brady, Photo Editors, Art Streiber, Photographer; Spring 2008, “Legends”
Golf Digest Index, Ken DeLago, Design Director, Ryan Cline, Photo Editors, Massimo Gammacurta, Photographer; Fall 2008, “Genuine Articles”
Interior Design Magazine, Cindy Allen, Creative Director, Helene Oberman, Photo Editor, Eric Laignel, Photographer; May 2008, “First-Aid Kit”

PHOTO: FEATURE, EDUCATIONAL/INSTITUTIONAL (single/spread/story)
Intelligence Report, Russell Estes, Creative Director; Fall 2008, “Ready for War”
Proto, Charlene Benson, Creative Director, Ann deSaussure, Director of Photography, Nigel Cox, Photographer; Winter 2008, “Claire’s Knee”
Stanford Magazine, Amy Shroads, Art Director, Michael Sugrue, Photographer; January/February 2008, “I Died 40 Years Ago”
Stanford Magazine, Amy Shroads, Art Director, Manuello Paganelli & Glenn Matsumura, Photographers; July/August 2008, “Stanford Olympians”

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I will start off with my friend Ace Kvale who has this project submitted:
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/acekvale/shattered-dreams-the-world-of-child-labor/
His portfolio can be seen here:
http://acekvale.com/

I know he can pull off something great. I sent him once to shoot the cataract eye clinic in the Himalaya and he did an amazing job. I also like the part about him touring with the work to teach kids about child labor. This is a really good assignment for Ace.

The contest ends at midnight tonight EST so lets get voting if we want to send people to the finals.

Ian MacLellan:

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/imaclellan/simple-innovation-as-the-power-to-change-the-developing-world/
And portfolios: http://maclellanimages.com/blog1/galleries/

Chad McClarnon

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/chadmcclarnon/

And a link to my web portfolio – http://www.cwmphoto.com

Steveen Laxton

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/stevenlaxton/effects-of-war-in-cambodia/

And my website: http://www.stevenlaxton.com

Steve Simon

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/stevesimon1/the-grandmother-spirit/

You can see some preliminary work on my website under Projects @

http://www.stevesimonphoto.com

Serge Giachetti

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/giachett/growing-from-the-root-a-youthful-renaissance-of-native-american-culture/

sergegiachetti.com

look under ‘young blackfoot’ in the projects section to see the work I’ve done thus far.

Andrew Sullivan

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/andrewsullivan/the-forgotten-plague/

And here’s my book: http://www.andrew-sullivan.com

James Jones

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/jamjon/bouldering-taking-climbing-to-a-new-place/

And if you scroll down in the blog you can see some recent shots in the same line:

http://www.photographyri.com/index.php

Carey Kirkella

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/careykirkella/americas-visionary-changemakers/

http://www.careykirkella.com/

gale zucker

http://www.tiny.cc/RgHyO

One Goat at a Time: Showing the Heifer Project Change Lives & Better the World

David Paul Morris

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/dpm888/the-labor-of-children/

http://www.davidpaulmorris.com –> Stories –> Payatas Dumpsite – child labor

Nick Hall

Mine is a dream about empowering real people, facing the realities of climate change to document their own stories and share with the world.

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/Nickhallphoto/i-see-climate-change/

My website:

http://www.nickhallphotography.com

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“The erroneous e-mail was an unfortunate mistake made by a junior member of our staff,” Mary Warlick, CEO of the One Club, told Ad Age. “The e-mail is not a current database and does not include accurate information.” Ms. Warlick further noted that the One Club is a nonprofit organization. “Any of the agencies that enter the One Club [awards show] realize that their entry fees support the industry.”

Hungriest for medals

BBDO seems to be by far the hungriest for medals. The network’s Brazilian office, Almap BBDO, had the most submissions according to the document, with 156. The second-most entries? That’d be another BBDO office, BBDO, New York, with 146 submissions.

via Advertising Age – News.

Thanks, Russell.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. The award honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a magazines unique mission and personality.

Bon Appétit; GQ; National Geographic; T, The New York Times Style Magazine; W

PHOTOJOURNALISM: This category recognizes the informative photographic documentation of an event or subject in real-time.

Harper’s Magazine; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine (2 nominations); Time

PHOTO PORTFOLIO: This category honors creative photography and photo illustration (including portraiture or specially produced layouts on fashion, food, decorating, travel, design, the arts, etc.).

Bon Appétit; GQ; Gourmet; The New Yorker; W

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First Place goes to Uriel Sinai of Getty Images
Singles
“Cyclone Narcisse in Burma”
“Congo Unrest”
“Gaza Israel Conflict in 2008″
“War in Georgia”
“Post-Election Violence in Kenya”

Second Place goes to Anthony Suau of Freelance / TIME Magazine
Singles
“U.S. Economy in Crisis”
“U.S. / Mexican Border”
“Culiacan – Mexican Drug War”
“Untitled”

Third Place goes to David Burnett of Contact Press Images

Images Currently Being Posted 3/2
Singles
“2008 Beijing Olympics”
“Las Vegas Boom and Bust”
“Hillary Clinton for President”
“Senator John McCain, Republican Presidential Candidate”
“Barack Obama”

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For the past four years I’ve been invited to attend speed dating reviews at Art Center of Design in LA which is basically a panel of professionals who look at student work (really fast) and this year I was also invited to look over the work of graduating 7th term photography students (it’s an 8 term program that take 2 years and 8 months to complete if you go nonstop.) This was a two-on-one for the students Dennis Keeley the Photo Chair and I. He ran the show and he gave some insightful feedback, it was amazing to hear him talk about the work. I managed to cough once and awhile *kidding.*

This is an opportunity for the students to get some industry feedback and forces them to articulate their work to a potential client and prepare them for the big bad world out there.

Most recently I was invited by Everard Williams, Associate Photo Chair at Art Center to help curate the work that goes into their student gallery. I spent the day with Everard, and Alexandra Tumbas, my former intern at the Times (also a terrific photographer and photo editor), who’s now the Assistant Photo Editor, at C Magazine. We looked at a lot of strong work for the upcoming show.

The work was strong but there’s an aspect to entering a contest or review that seems to be overlooked and this is the actual submission process so i thought I’d share with you a few tips on how to make a submission.

Typically very specific guidelines are given for any submission. This is a time consuming effort for the reviewers, so the selection process needs to be as efficient as possible.

Rule #1: Read the guidelines

Rule #2: Read the guidelines

I was really surprised how much digital work did not follow the specs, when files were submitted as psd, at 85 megs, they took forever to open. When you are looking about 200+ images you can image how long 45 seconds feels.

While I was working at the Los Angeles Times Magazine we submitted a lot of our work to The Society of Publication Designers and the Society of News Design. SPD is organization that focuses primarily on the visual communication of print and online editorial professionals. SND is the same structure but focused on international Newspapers.

We spent an incredible amount of time getting our entries together. There was a team of people selected to oversee the assembly of the submissions, one person keyed in all the entries into an excel document, freelancers were hired to help and staff stayed as late as 1:00 am and worked weekends to make the deadlines and submit properly. At the end of the contest as a paper we had over 300 entries.

If an entry was not correctly filled out, it did not get considered. End of story. The kick in the pants here is not only did you lose your entry fee, you don’t even get a shot at losing.

Rule #3: Care about your presentation

I was really impressed with students that took the time to pull together a nice edit of matted images. Some submitted a loose box of images all different sizes and it make it a little harder to judge. When they had such a range of work, it made it more difficult to look at as a body because the viewing process was shattered by the varying sizes. It’s easier to compare things uniformly.

Rule #4
Include your best work always, and edit it.

Don’t overwhelm the judges, having a too large of a submission can hurt you more then help you.

Rule #5
Don’t include personal notes or attacks on the judging process. One girl had a hand written note in her submission on a piece of graph paper

FACT: I am graduating this term

FACT: I have submitted for gallery 9 times and never been selected

Um, that would go over really well when you are asking for a grant or a show.

Rule #5
Label your work with your name. I know simple but one CD had no information on it. Memorex CD-R doesn’t cut it.

The Student Gallery opens Dec 12. Art Center has a calendar and all their lectures are open to the public. www.artcenter.edu

UPDATE: Some images from the review (here).

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I know American Photography is all about the book, but they’ve got this website which is an amazing collection of all the past winners and it’s absolute shit to navigate. It could be such a useful tool for finding talent if only it were organized better, because the real gems are the photographers who made the cut but not into the book. Maybe someday they will fix that.

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That Texas Monthly cover Platon shot of Willie should go in the hall of fame it’s so effing good.

Via, PDN Pulse.

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The beauty of it all, in my mind, is the design. The video of the photographer occupies a small space in the lower left corner allowing the image to dominate the screen. There’s even a little magnifying glass feature on the right that allows you to closely inspect the image like you were holding a loupe, not that comparing the sharpness of Platon’s portrait of Putin to Tim Hetheringtons beautifully blurry photo of the year, will give you any added insight. It’s just cool

I haven’t explored all the photographer interviews but listening to Platon describe the chain of events that led to his award winning portrait of Vladimir Putin (possibly the only formal portrait he’s ever agreed to) reinforces my belief that great photographers will always deliver under any circumstance. I’ve not seen a picture of Putin where you can actually sit and contemplate his expression and facial features and while that may seem very trite sitting in your home or office in front of the computer under the circumstances presented I think it’s quite remarkable.

Regardless, hearing the stories behind the photos is an incredible addition to the World Press Photo event and certainly a huge step toward increasing the popularity in the future.

Via, Paul Melcher.

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